Less than a week after the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Euro 2008 is underway. Sure the NBA playoffs are still going, but now that the Pistons or Spurs can't win it, I'll be pretty much satisfied with whoever wins. That said, I'm not a huge Kobe fan, and think Garnett deserves a ring, so go Celtics I guess.
The Euro so far has been great. Despite Groups A and B not being very deep, the games have been contested fairly evenly, even in the case of the poorly ranked Austrian team who are only there by virtue of hosting this year's tourney. I have my concerns about the Netherlands even making it out of the group phase, somehow getting lumped in with both Italy and France who at any given time are football forces. Somehow 3 of the top 10 teams in the world ended up in the same group of the European tournament, but if nothing else, it will provide for some fiery, tightly contested play. As I write this, 5th ranked Germany has scored its 2nd against 28th ranked Poland, and they still get to play Austria who is ranked below Canada (?!) in the world.
Anyways, competition and all that, I hope to go out to Kickoff in campus plaza for the Netherlands-Italy game tomorrow. What Kickoff lacks in menu, it more than makes up for in tasty, obscure imports on tap and always having a soccer game tuned in.
Hup Nederland!